[78-L] Operatic Sight Reading.

[Malcolm Rockwell]

Spontaneous? Depends on the resonant frequency of your chest, your vocal 
cords and what your hearing is being influenced by at the time.
This is a trick that is used by some who claim they have "perfect 
pitch," when it fact they have "relative pitch." Find your natural 
singing key (sing a scale where it is comfortable for you and compare it 
to a piano scale - my resonant frequency is D. It used to be C but when 
I quit smoking it went up a whole tone) and compare that to the scale or 
note you are trying to figure out. A little ear training so you can 
discern intervals (the space between notes) and, voila, perfect pitch.
Mal

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On 12/12/2011 7:09 AM, Julian Vein wrote:
> On 12/12/11 16:39, Malcolm Rockwell wrote:
>> Uh, your definition of transpose is slightly askew. It is not the
>> ability to play in different keys, it is the ability to play in a key
>> that is different from the key written on the sheet music. So, if a song
>> is written in E but the vocalist's natural key is F# a pianist who can
>> transpose has the ability to play in F# (or any other key) even though
>> the score is in E.
>> We won't even get in to horn transpositions!
>> Malcolm
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>> *******
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> When one of us breaks into spontaneous song, how do we know which note
> to start on?
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>         Julian Vein
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